While Ghost Reveries and Watershed were both great in their own right, they still felt like a re-imagining of 1999’s Still Life.

Completely different albums through and through. In fact, comparing Opeth albums should yield little comparison. They're all different in their own regard. Good review though, probably the best on this site thus far.

Negged for dumb assumptions, eg that it is FACT that Opeth peaked at BWP. Popular opinion is now fact amirite.